>They're sending people around the moon in a giant rocket ship. It sells itself. It actually doesn't. It didn't even "sell itself" the first time. Apollo requi

>They're sending people around the moon in a giant rocket ship. It sells itself. It actually doesn't. It didn't even "sell itself" the first time. Apollo required a massive national propaganda campaign framing the space race in terms of an existential war against communist annihilation to get people to even care - and people still stopped caring once the news stopped being sensational.